The Emperor asked: “The Taiyin spleen meridian acts exterior and interior relating with Yangming stomach meridian. Why do they have different illness?â€
Qi Bo answered: “The two meridians have different locations. They alternate vacuity and repletion, and favorableness and unfavorableness in the four seasons (Yangming is repletion and Taiyin is vacuity during spring and summer; Taiyin is repletion and Yangming is vacuity during fall and winter. Taiyin is unfavorableness and Yangming is favorableness in spring and summer; Yangming is unfavorableness and Taiyin is favorableness during fall and winter). The incidence of the disease may from endogenous, or from the outside reasons. Different attributes determine different diseases.â€
Key Words: topic on discussion of Taiyin and Yangming, the plain questions
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